Soviet 33rd Rifle Division

The Soviet 33rd Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Red Army that was active from 1922 to 1947 and from 1955 to 1956. The division was formed at Samara and moved to Belarus the next year, fighting in the 1939 invasion of Poland and in the 1940 occupation of Lithuania. After Operation Barbarossa, the division fought in the Baltics, the Siege of Leningrad, the Toropets-Kholm Offensive, the Leningrad-Novgorod Offensive, the Tartu Offensive, and the Riga Offensive. In 1945, the division fought in the East Pomeranian Offensive and the Battle of Berlin, and it remained in Germany after the end of World War II. It was disbanded in 1947, and briefly reactivated from 1955 to 1956.